Cornelia Chase Brant
American homeopath
Cornelia Lucretia Brant (née Chase; December 16, 1863 – March 9, 1959) was an American medical doctor.
After starting a family, she started a medical career as a mature student, graduating from the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women in 1903. She assumed the position of Dean in 1914, served as part of the Council of National Defense during the First World War, and then practiced as a GP in Brooklyn from 1918 to 1939. She was an active club woman and was the president of the Brooklyn Woman's Club.
Early life
She was born Cornelia "Nellie" Lucretia Chase to a Quaker family in Ottawa, Illinois on December 16, 1863. Her mother died in childbirth when she was nine and she was then brought up by three aunts in Newark, New Jersey. They ran a school for young ladies with a liberal philosophy, being friends with Susan B. Anthony and Dr Clemence Lozier, who were pioneers of women's rights. The latter had established the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women in 1863, pioneering medical education for women. This acquaintance and the male medical establishment's failure to care for women in her life established a desire to become a doctor in the young woman.
To prepare for a medical career, she went to the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn in 1881 for its junior college program.
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